Israel continues to mete out punishment to Palestine for its successful bid for recognition at the U.N. on Thursday. Israel has announced that it will withhold $120 million in taxes and tariffs that they collect on behalf of Palestine.
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly is expected to decide late Thursday whether to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority at the world body from an entity to a non-member state.
Two days after car bombs went off near a Shi'ite procession in Baghdad, killing 12 people, two back-to-back bombs exploded in two other Shi'ite cities according to Iraqi officials.
An independent panel probing Afghanistan's failed Kabul Bank says a few individuals acted with "reckless disregard" in defrauding the bank, while a lack of oversight and enforcement contributed to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars.